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Chicago examiner vol xiv no 31 a m thuesday Chicago january 27 1916 thursday registered c s patent office price one cent^x twlcent 3 b 50,000 fugitive located in flight edwin lynn thacker for whom four banks are mourning now on ship sailing to south amer ica under an assumed name clerk to be taken from vessel at british island other pecu lations totaling to 100,000 blamed to 45-a-week man edwin lynn thacker the 45-a-week cashier and book keeper for cosden & co who disappeared two weeks ago and is now charged with forgeries embez zlements and other ways of getting money to the amount of 50,000 has been located he is on the steamer grafton hall which sailed last sat urday from new york for buenos aires argentina also he has been identified he is the same thacker who m 1906 was arrested on similar charges m which the loss was placed at 100,000 and he is the same thacker who m 1912 was captured after he hud fltd from Chicago to arkansas brought back and convicted of forging 4,000 worth of paper the real loss was 15,000 â€” and sent to joliet for from one to twenty years he is out on parole indictments on three counts sought operatives of the pinkerton na tional detective agency and from state's attorney maclay hoyne's of fice and the detective bureau yester day asked the grand jury to indict thacker on three counts one was the embezzlement from cosden & co of 5,000 one was for the larceny of 5,000 from cosden & co a third was a forgery on the corn exchange na tional bank for 1,400 three other banks are nursing losses one of 10 000 one of 6,000 and a third of 4,000 and the total loss by thack er's departure will be not less than 50,000 though he was paid but 45 a week thacker lived m a 50 flat at 5202 cornell avenue and the detec tives say that he kept two or three other establishments on the south side one at forty-seventh street and lake park avenue with him at the cornell avenue flat lived his wife who was mrs i i bloom when he married her m may 1915 after a brief courtship detectives sought her m vain last night though it is thought certain that she is not with thacker england asked to take hint from ship though he is to-day speeding south over the atlantic ocean all plans have been laid for his capture and return to the united states and he will never see buenos aires after edward j weiss m charge of the criminal investigations of the pink erton national detective agency had wirelessed the captain of the grafton hall and had been assured that thacker under the name of r c fuller is aboard the ship state's at torney maclay hoyne sent a long wire to governor dunne setting forth the urgency of the case gov ernor dunne m turn wired the au thorities at washington who will have the united states secretary of state arrange with the british au thorities to have thacker taken from the ship when it touches at trinidad detective sergeant john j mcginnis of the detective bureau has been as signed to make the trip to trinidad island and bring him back trunks moved from place to place the tracing of thacker to the grafton hall was a most intricate piece of detective work for he showed a positive genius for covering his tracks he was always on the look out for detection and m one of the flats he kept at forty-seventh street and lake park avenue the detectives found that he had tapped the tele phone lines entering the building so that he could hear all conversations bear cub mascot is shot to death when it throws girls into panic tailor uses revolver as animal escapes knocks him down and frightens employes a cub bear designed to become the new mascot of charles weeghman's Chicago cubs baseball club was shot to death late yesterday afternoon after it had escaped from its crate the animal first invaded a tailoring factory and threw thirty-five girl employes into a panic the bear which had been sent to Chicago by a montana fan was being transported to the weeghman park by harry miller 1030 orleans street as the express wagon passed 1161 milton avenue occupied by isaacson & carlson tailors the cub leaped from its crate and dashed into the build ing up two flights of stairs it loped then dashed through a doorway mr isaacson who was talking to c o nelson deputy state factory in spector near the entrance was knocked off his feet the cub then made straight for a bevy of girls at work at machines with screams the girls leaped from their seats and ran for fire escapes nelson after hurling a chair at the animal pulled a revolver and shot it three hurt in fight at 19th ward club three men were injured with bullets and knives at taylor and hal sted streets last night m a fight that succeeded a political meeting and a dice game carmen sicoli 1015 polk street and daniel comanda 313 south peoria street went to the nine teenth ward democratic italian club meeting afterward they began to roll the diee â€” and quarreled sicoli was shot m the leg and shoulder comanda was slashed with a razor across the throat and is m a critical condition the third man injured was frank camneta 528 polk street who was just walking along the street when a stray bullet went into his trousers pocket and wounded his hand tammany men fight indorsing wilson now by international news service albany n v jan 26 â€” leading members of the democratic state committee gathered here to-night for the meeting to-morrow are counsel ing against an indorsement of the wilson administration at that meet ing a small group of federal office holders have the wilson resolutions ready and want to put the commit tee on record tammany leader charles f murphy and other domi nant factors on the committee are urging that the question be left to the unofficial party conference to be held on february 21 mrs rootman hurt seriously by auto mrs harry j rootman wife of the former proprietor of the windsor clifton hotel probably was fatally injured by an automobile at monroe and state streets last night james hutchinson who resides at the gras mere hotel sheridan road and wil son avenue driver of the machine was arrested mrs rootman's skull was fractured and she suffered internal injuries as hutchinson and policeman waters were driving to the station the machine crashed into a stalled car and practically was wrecked men in green and red stroll at palm beach by international news service pal.m beach fla jan 26 â€” the newest thing m the way of wearing apparel for men is the palm beach suit m a variety of green blue red and other bright shades hundreds of these gay-colored suits have been ordered u s weather forecast Chicago and vicinity â€” rain thursday colder ln afternoon friday snow and much colder ; moderate to fresh shifting winds becoming strong northerly temperatures for twenty-four hours ending at 7 p m : highest 58 lowest 40 mean s3 normal temperature for the day 23 excess of temperature since january 1 102 de grees precipitation for twenty-four hours 01 inch excess of precipitation since january 1 2.41 inches relative humidity 7 a m 75 : 2 p 1 , tti 7 p.m 79 barometric pressure reduced to sea le*e 1 7 a m 30.14 7 p m 80.11 sunrise to-day 7:06 sunset 4.58 \ moon rise 1 a m friday hold postal official as embezzler j t lynch assistant superinten dent of mails arrested on evidence of marked coins heads of department shocked by charge prisoner refuses comment generally respected john t lynch assistant superin tendent of mails and one of the old est and most trusted executives of the Chicago postoffice was arrested last night on a charge of embezzling gov ernment funds lynch was deemed so honest that all money lost from letters and found by postal clerks was turned over to him it is this money he is accused of having stolen whether the loss totals a few hundred or several thou sand dollars probably will never be known had excellent record he was one of the three men m charge of the army of clerks who handle all of chicago's outgoing mail he was m direct supervision of the routing of all precanceled mail he was a master of postoffice machinery so proficient that a few years ago first assistant postmaster general roper made him a special postoffice inspector to examine the postal ma chinery of the country postoffice inspectors arrested him for several months inspectors adam e otto and e l jackson under the direction of general james e stuart divisional chief of the inspectors had been trying to account for the fact that the amount of money lost m the mails had been constantly de creasing harked money used the inspectors lost marked mon ey quarters half dollars bills of small and large denomination near the sorting tables and saw it car ried to assistant superintendent lynch's desk they say it never was deposited with the postoffice cashier they add that several of the marked pieces were found m lynch's pockets when he was arrested our department has a record of having never touched a man who was innocent and i hoped to-night that that record had been broken and a mistake made said general stuart but it can't be true because i made the inspectors check over and over again they found money m his pockets that should have been depos ited several days ago shock to officials the amount of money embezzled has nothing to do with it it is the thought that a high official of the office a man whom i have known personally for jif teen years â€” why he actually aided us m several cases â€” had fctooped to theft x no one m the postal service save the two inspectors and their chief knew that an investigation was be ing made when the report first reached frank galbraith general su perintendent of mails and george a gasman assistant m charge of out going mails both refused to believe it hunts wife in lake she is home sleeping for two hours last night edward shure 1218 wellington street and a score of friends searched the lake shore with lanterns for his wife he believed she had drowned herself finding no body shure returned home there he found his wife asleep mrs shure her husband said has been m ill-health and often spoke of ending her life venizelos faces sedition charges berlin jan 26 â€” the sofia news paper utro prints a dispatch from athens saying the greek crown pros ecutor has commenced proceedings against ex-premier venizelos for his recent utterances and actions oppos ing the greek government's stand fa voring neutrality order of merit is given henry james by international news service london jan 26 â€” king george m consideration of henry james state of health has given permission that the order of merit be conveyed to him by his old friend lord bryce in stead of requiring mr james to at tend the palace for formal inves tltura all loop gar lines tied up for hours short circuit m van buren street tunnel melts power wires and stalls l trains too thousands are marooned m downtown section with taxis . as only means of escape early this morning it was an nounced at the office of the chi cago surface lines that repairs would be made before the morning rush hours and that workers would find the service restored and cars running on schedule thousands of chicagoans were caught m the loop district last night by the most serious transportation tie-up the city has known since the street car strike last spring long sections of elevated tracks and miles of surface lines were paralyzed the portions of the l and sur face lines that remained m operation were so congested that service was practically suspended for a time jitney buses popular throngs of men and women leaving the theaters wandered about aim lessly trying to find some sort of transportation in a few minutes practically all the taxicabs m the loop had been taken jitney bus lines were improvised on the spur of the moment hundreds of stranded persons unable to find transportation iri the direction they wanted and un willing to walk spent the night at downtown hotels on some of the l lines traffic was stopped so suddenly that passen gers got out and walked along the structure to the nearest station and thence descended to the street a driving rain added to the discom forts of the situation and nobody knows how many dollars worth of evening gowns and fancy millinery was ruined cables blow out the cause of the trouble was a blow-out m twelve two-inch cables m the van buren street tunnel fire followed the blow-out and the cables were practically destroyed the wires melting the lines tied up were all sur face lines entering on the north northwest and west sides all sur face cars m the loop district and as far south as twelfth street metro politan west side elevated lines completely for an hour express serv ice on the northwestern elevated branch of the elevated system south side cars were not affected south of twelfth street and the south side eelvated railroad was kept m operation west side blocked trains on the metropolitan system could not reach the loop and the serv ice west of the river was slow street cars on the north northwest and west sides could be moved only at a snail's pace and no street cars were operated m the loop until the clark street cars were moved just before 1 o'clock the car crews after waiting for several hours left their stalled cars and entered restaurants for lunch the loop district which was filled with stalled cars and their crews presented a sight seldom seen m chi cago spank her and 16 the idea runs away they were planning to spank me i'm sixteen years old and wouldn't stand for it this was the explana tion given by haroldine artiste for merly an englewood high school girl for running away from her south chi cago home the girl was arrested m detroit yesterday the spanking she said was to be as a reprisal to her for going shopping the girl's mother is mrs emma artiste police matron her parents are divorced evanston generous says prof baillot evanston people are not stingy they're very generous professor edouard ballot head of the depart ment of romance languages at the northwestern university thus cham pioned the cause of the town on the north shore yesterday his asser tion was m answer to a statement made recently by john h wig*nore of the schools to-wit the people of evanston are tlngry " did monttennes lose 20,000 he's too smart listen to him since he never gambles story of dice game cannot be confirmed in the first place said the prom inent mr mont tennes earnestly i never never gamble got that writ ten down the reporter nodded in the second place mr tennes continued i wouldn't tell you if i did you understand profoundly said the reporter and m the third place mr tennes concluded tm too smart a man to be done by any amateur from st louis and that is the result of an investi gation made by a reporter last night to ascertain the truth or falsity of a persistent loophound rumor that mont tennes gambling king of Chicago had dropped 20,000 just the other night to louis becker gambling king of st louis m a social contest with a pair of dice on the face of the evidence the rumor must be regarded as unconfirmed american heirs form flying corps abroad by international news service paris jan 26 â€” a flying corps composed exclusively of wealthy young americans has been formed here by elliot cowden of gramercy park new york the strength of the corps will be thirty-two every one of them a milionaire or an heir to millions one member is norman price of boston the idea of the americans is to provide for the unit ed states a nucleus of flying men already trained for use m future american conflicts stanley field buys lake forest tract stanley field vice president of marshall field & co has doubled the size of his estate on sheridan road just north of lake forest by the purchase of thirty-eight acres ad joining the property has a frontage of 1,200 feet on sheridan road it is believed the deal involved 60,000 john gould of wallace l dewolf & co represented mr field the prop erty was bought from the Chicago real estate investment company charlton returns to start life anew by international news service new york jan 26 porter charl ton freed after serving a sentence for murdering his wife arrived m jew york to-day charlton expressed determination to start life anew i have been through a great deal of trouble he said i am gsing to spend my life trying to live it down he will leave saturday for porto rico to join his father paul charlton for merly a federal judge germans tell greek king to flee realm by international news service paris jan 26 â€” the temps corre spondent m saloniki sent a dispatch this afternoon stating that german agents had informed king constan tine that he was liable to be attacked and advised him to flee to monastir and place himself under german pro tection the king refused to-day hatters day among union men by international news service new york jan 26 t0-morrow will be hatters day among union men throughout the united states every union worker m the country has been asked to set aside his wages for one hour to-morrow to help the danbury hatters save their homes 39 slain ship sunk in raid says berlin berlin jan 26 â€” thirty-nine per sons among them one officer and twenty-four soldiers were killed one transport was sunk and several railroad cars loaded with provisions were destroyed when german airmen raided dover monday according to the hamburg fremdenblatt queen wilhelmina ill with a ttack of mumps london jan 26 â€” a reuter dis patch from the hague says that queen wilhelmina has been com peled to interrupt her trip to the flooded regions owing to an attack of the mumps wife and daughter slain man missing mrs nathan pullman of Chicago wife of wealthy retired realty dealer killed with ax m new york room double slaying follows happy family reunion motive for crime lacking missing man m good health police baffled mrs nathan pullman of the hampden apartments 3850 langley avenue and her daughter gertrude bozella were mur dered m new york yesterday after noon pullman a wealthy retired real estate man disappeared about the time of the murder and is being sought by the police the crime is one of mystery and the only police theory is that pull man suddenly developed a homicidal mania and split open his wife's skull with an ex while she was sleeping his daughter arrived on a visit while he was endeavoring to conceal the body it is believed and m fear of discovery pullman struck her down with the ax just as she was entering the room pullman disappeared after slaying no other person was seen to enter the pullman room at 774 dawson street the bronx the scene of the double murder except pullman and his daughter pullman left the house alone during the afternoon he had gone out earlier m the afternoon and returned with a bundle it is be lieved to have contained the new ax and a new hatchet which were found m the room a motive for the murder is lacking pullman and his wife had been mar ried thirty years and he had retired so he and his wife might be con stantly together m a life of ease he went to new york for a family re union with his three daughters all married and living m the eastern city to celebrate the birthday of his only grandchild mrs bozella told her father that she too was to be come a mother and pullman had ex pressed his delight no trace of insanity recorded pullman was a man of temperate habits m sound health and had never exhibited the slightest sign of men tal derangement three months ago pullman who is fifty-five years old and his wife re becca fifty-years old came back to Chicago to be among their friends of former years pullman had made a comfortable fortune m real estate m the bronx and his daughters had married m new york alvin gubbie son of herman gub bie of astoria a son-in-law of pull man was to celebrate his birthday monday and the three daughters urged their parents to come to new york for a birthday party mr and mrs pullman left here friday and arrived m new york saturday they took a room at the home of mrs eliz abeth palmer at the dawson street address to be near their two daugh ters mrs david bozella of 792 pros pect avenue and mrs mina kasinitz of 860 east one hundred and sixty fourth street both m the bronx birthday party was happy event the birthday party and reunion was a great success and mr and mrs pullman returned from astoria to their room m dawson street tues day delighted with their visit mrs bozella their daughter who was twenty-three years old paid them a visit yesterday morning she remained for some time and then left to do some shopping about 1 o'clock pullman left the house and returned with a parcel about 3 o'clock mrs bozella returned at 3:30 pullman was again seen to leave the landlady later failed to gain entrance to the room and sum moned patrolman knowleÃŸ the door wa a broken m and the bodies found britain relieves restriction on ship transfers by international news service london jan 26 transfer to american registry of enemy owned vessels will be recog nized m certain cases m which they are not used directly or in directly m trading with england's enemies lord robert cecil parliamen tary under secretary for foreign affairs told the house of com mons to-day that the united states had been informed to this effect he said that the government had approved the transfer of the german vessel purelight to the standard oil company with re strictions as to exportation of lubricants paraffin and wax to neutral countries this decision marks a complete reversal of the attitude hitherto maintained by great britain as to the transfer of enemy-owned ships it opens up wide possibilities as to the german-owned ships laid up m american harbors . in the case of the dacia a ham burg-american vessel sold at the outbreak of the war to edward n breitung an american citizen and seized with her cargo of cot ton by france the position was taken by both france and great britain that a transfer must have been effected at least thirty days prior to hostilities to insure rec ognition by belligerents 60 killed in berlin riot sms report 300 wounded as machine guns are turned on women and children says paris dispatch by international news service paris jan 26 â€” scores were shot down at a peace demonstration m berlin on january 12 according to the story of a neutral printed here to day more than sixty persons were killed and at least 300 wounded this individual who claims to have been m the german capital until january 15 declares he pictures a reign of terror m which troops mutinied re fusing to fire on tlic rioters machine guns were then turned against the crowds he says his story follows on january s a mob composed of women and children formed m the slums of berlin and started toward unter den linden and the imperial palace they were halted and dis persed by armed police all cafes closed the government foreseeing the ap proalching crisis then called m two regiments of the second landstrum garrisoned at potsdam the troops arrived on the scene and immedi ately began policing the district be tween brandenburger tor and arsenal platz mounted patrols were placed m the principal streets and the pal aces of the kaiser and crown prince were surrounded by troops on january 12 although the city was virtually under martial law an immense mob gathered m the slums md formed into a long procession of misery bearing huge black banners on which were painted m white such phrases as we want bread give us back our husbands we want peace patrols flee crowd the mob streamed amid the wild est excitement through the capital passed yelling before the doors of the reichstag surged through bran denburger tor and rushed along unter den linden toward the imperial pal ace and arsenal-platz driving the mounted patrols before it â€¢ suddenly two companies of soldiers barred the way they were ordered to fire into the crowd not a man would raise his musket but the mu tinous troops drawing back un masked two machine guns which im mediately opened a destructive fire it was reported afterward that the machine guns toll was more than sixty dead and over 300 wounded it is an open secret now m berlin that the garrison received 3,000 rein forcements the next day the author ities live m constant fear of more serious outbreaks * mexicans kill pour more u.s soldiers two troopers are captured by border bandits and officers lead rescue expedition m an armed invasion of mexico three lieutenants are put under arrest as result of raid across border bodies of two american cowboys are found brownsville tex jan 28 two american soldiers were seized by armed mexicans and four others fired upon were drowned m the rio grande this aft ernoon at progreso tex three united states army officers led a rescuing expedition into mexico constituting the first armed invasion by united states troops since the recent massacre of united states citizens by bandits as a result of the invasion the officers were placed under arrest by order of the army headquarters here swim for american shore m a rain of bullets the six soldiers were swim-ning ie the river and had crossed to the mexican bank when two were i^ade prisoners by a band of mexicans who suddenly rushed out of the brush the others swam madly for the american shore volleys of buile.3 following them the missing private william c wheeiep private b petersen fourth field artillery the drowned sergeant owen l clement corporal michael f king private henry a rohde private charles d wilton relief expedition fails to find trace of americans the relief expedition to rescue the captured men was composed of lieu tenants mort peyton and waldron fourteen artillerymen and a cavalry man they crossed the river and searched for a distance of about a mile but failed to find trace of the americans although a party ot mexicans sighted m the brush was fired upon the mexicans escaped reinforcements are being rushed to progreso from mercedes two more americans are reported slain el paso texas jan 26 â€” tlie bodies of benjamin sneli and frank woods american cowboys have been found west of cusihuiriachic mexico according to an unconfirmed report from western chihuahua reaching here to-day three more americans have been killed by bandits near minaca west ern chihuahua they were henry acken wallace malburn and tom johnson sentiment for a military patrol of northern mexico was so strong at the stock association here to-day the ad ministration faction failed to even raise a voice m protest against the resolution demanding protection for american life and property it was passed without a dissenting vote the delegates charge that carranza has been a total failure and that he will be unable to hold his forces to gether longer than ninety days jose maria bonilla a physician em ployed by the american smelter ft refining company arrived here to day with a story of a widespread re volt m durango against carranza he said a proclamation has been posted denouncing carranza as an enemy of the republic americans have keen ordered hot ln revenge for the recog nition of carranza according to bonilla the proclama tion was signed by generals arru medo contreras rodrlgues ' rayes fabela alanls and medina a continued on 12th page 7th column i final i g edition j for nourishing diet in grip er sore throat _â€¢_ borllc-'a malted mil avoid iubÂ«tltut_i i â€” advertisement if v _-_ _ jjaaaia don't lose time when you lose valuables â€” phone your ad to main 5000 at once i 111 through an examiner lost and ufi found ad you stand the best chance m the world of recorer iumi ing your loss juuu

Chicago examiner vol xiv no 31 a m thuesday Chicago january 27 1916 thursday registered c s patent office price one cent^x twlcent 3 b 50,000 fugitive located in flight edwin lynn thacker for whom four banks are mourning now on ship sailing to south amer ica under an assumed name clerk to be taken from vessel at british island other pecu lations totaling to 100,000 blamed to 45-a-week man edwin lynn thacker the 45-a-week cashier and book keeper for cosden & co who disappeared two weeks ago and is now charged with forgeries embez zlements and other ways of getting money to the amount of 50,000 has been located he is on the steamer grafton hall which sailed last sat urday from new york for buenos aires argentina also he has been identified he is the same thacker who m 1906 was arrested on similar charges m which the loss was placed at 100,000 and he is the same thacker who m 1912 was captured after he hud fltd from Chicago to arkansas brought back and convicted of forging 4,000 worth of paper the real loss was 15,000 â€” and sent to joliet for from one to twenty years he is out on parole indictments on three counts sought operatives of the pinkerton na tional detective agency and from state's attorney maclay hoyne's of fice and the detective bureau yester day asked the grand jury to indict thacker on three counts one was the embezzlement from cosden & co of 5,000 one was for the larceny of 5,000 from cosden & co a third was a forgery on the corn exchange na tional bank for 1,400 three other banks are nursing losses one of 10 000 one of 6,000 and a third of 4,000 and the total loss by thack er's departure will be not less than 50,000 though he was paid but 45 a week thacker lived m a 50 flat at 5202 cornell avenue and the detec tives say that he kept two or three other establishments on the south side one at forty-seventh street and lake park avenue with him at the cornell avenue flat lived his wife who was mrs i i bloom when he married her m may 1915 after a brief courtship detectives sought her m vain last night though it is thought certain that she is not with thacker england asked to take hint from ship though he is to-day speeding south over the atlantic ocean all plans have been laid for his capture and return to the united states and he will never see buenos aires after edward j weiss m charge of the criminal investigations of the pink erton national detective agency had wirelessed the captain of the grafton hall and had been assured that thacker under the name of r c fuller is aboard the ship state's at torney maclay hoyne sent a long wire to governor dunne setting forth the urgency of the case gov ernor dunne m turn wired the au thorities at washington who will have the united states secretary of state arrange with the british au thorities to have thacker taken from the ship when it touches at trinidad detective sergeant john j mcginnis of the detective bureau has been as signed to make the trip to trinidad island and bring him back trunks moved from place to place the tracing of thacker to the grafton hall was a most intricate piece of detective work for he showed a positive genius for covering his tracks he was always on the look out for detection and m one of the flats he kept at forty-seventh street and lake park avenue the detectives found that he had tapped the tele phone lines entering the building so that he could hear all conversations bear cub mascot is shot to death when it throws girls into panic tailor uses revolver as animal escapes knocks him down and frightens employes a cub bear designed to become the new mascot of charles weeghman's Chicago cubs baseball club was shot to death late yesterday afternoon after it had escaped from its crate the animal first invaded a tailoring factory and threw thirty-five girl employes into a panic the bear which had been sent to Chicago by a montana fan was being transported to the weeghman park by harry miller 1030 orleans street as the express wagon passed 1161 milton avenue occupied by isaacson & carlson tailors the cub leaped from its crate and dashed into the build ing up two flights of stairs it loped then dashed through a doorway mr isaacson who was talking to c o nelson deputy state factory in spector near the entrance was knocked off his feet the cub then made straight for a bevy of girls at work at machines with screams the girls leaped from their seats and ran for fire escapes nelson after hurling a chair at the animal pulled a revolver and shot it three hurt in fight at 19th ward club three men were injured with bullets and knives at taylor and hal sted streets last night m a fight that succeeded a political meeting and a dice game carmen sicoli 1015 polk street and daniel comanda 313 south peoria street went to the nine teenth ward democratic italian club meeting afterward they began to roll the diee â€” and quarreled sicoli was shot m the leg and shoulder comanda was slashed with a razor across the throat and is m a critical condition the third man injured was frank camneta 528 polk street who was just walking along the street when a stray bullet went into his trousers pocket and wounded his hand tammany men fight indorsing wilson now by international news service albany n v jan 26 â€” leading members of the democratic state committee gathered here to-night for the meeting to-morrow are counsel ing against an indorsement of the wilson administration at that meet ing a small group of federal office holders have the wilson resolutions ready and want to put the commit tee on record tammany leader charles f murphy and other domi nant factors on the committee are urging that the question be left to the unofficial party conference to be held on february 21 mrs rootman hurt seriously by auto mrs harry j rootman wife of the former proprietor of the windsor clifton hotel probably was fatally injured by an automobile at monroe and state streets last night james hutchinson who resides at the gras mere hotel sheridan road and wil son avenue driver of the machine was arrested mrs rootman's skull was fractured and she suffered internal injuries as hutchinson and policeman waters were driving to the station the machine crashed into a stalled car and practically was wrecked men in green and red stroll at palm beach by international news service pal.m beach fla jan 26 â€” the newest thing m the way of wearing apparel for men is the palm beach suit m a variety of green blue red and other bright shades hundreds of these gay-colored suits have been ordered u s weather forecast Chicago and vicinity â€” rain thursday colder ln afternoon friday snow and much colder ; moderate to fresh shifting winds becoming strong northerly temperatures for twenty-four hours ending at 7 p m : highest 58 lowest 40 mean s3 normal temperature for the day 23 excess of temperature since january 1 102 de grees precipitation for twenty-four hours 01 inch excess of precipitation since january 1 2.41 inches relative humidity 7 a m 75 : 2 p 1 , tti 7 p.m 79 barometric pressure reduced to sea le*e 1 7 a m 30.14 7 p m 80.11 sunrise to-day 7:06 sunset 4.58 \ moon rise 1 a m friday hold postal official as embezzler j t lynch assistant superinten dent of mails arrested on evidence of marked coins heads of department shocked by charge prisoner refuses comment generally respected john t lynch assistant superin tendent of mails and one of the old est and most trusted executives of the Chicago postoffice was arrested last night on a charge of embezzling gov ernment funds lynch was deemed so honest that all money lost from letters and found by postal clerks was turned over to him it is this money he is accused of having stolen whether the loss totals a few hundred or several thou sand dollars probably will never be known had excellent record he was one of the three men m charge of the army of clerks who handle all of chicago's outgoing mail he was m direct supervision of the routing of all precanceled mail he was a master of postoffice machinery so proficient that a few years ago first assistant postmaster general roper made him a special postoffice inspector to examine the postal ma chinery of the country postoffice inspectors arrested him for several months inspectors adam e otto and e l jackson under the direction of general james e stuart divisional chief of the inspectors had been trying to account for the fact that the amount of money lost m the mails had been constantly de creasing harked money used the inspectors lost marked mon ey quarters half dollars bills of small and large denomination near the sorting tables and saw it car ried to assistant superintendent lynch's desk they say it never was deposited with the postoffice cashier they add that several of the marked pieces were found m lynch's pockets when he was arrested our department has a record of having never touched a man who was innocent and i hoped to-night that that record had been broken and a mistake made said general stuart but it can't be true because i made the inspectors check over and over again they found money m his pockets that should have been depos ited several days ago shock to officials the amount of money embezzled has nothing to do with it it is the thought that a high official of the office a man whom i have known personally for jif teen years â€” why he actually aided us m several cases â€” had fctooped to theft x no one m the postal service save the two inspectors and their chief knew that an investigation was be ing made when the report first reached frank galbraith general su perintendent of mails and george a gasman assistant m charge of out going mails both refused to believe it hunts wife in lake she is home sleeping for two hours last night edward shure 1218 wellington street and a score of friends searched the lake shore with lanterns for his wife he believed she had drowned herself finding no body shure returned home there he found his wife asleep mrs shure her husband said has been m ill-health and often spoke of ending her life venizelos faces sedition charges berlin jan 26 â€” the sofia news paper utro prints a dispatch from athens saying the greek crown pros ecutor has commenced proceedings against ex-premier venizelos for his recent utterances and actions oppos ing the greek government's stand fa voring neutrality order of merit is given henry james by international news service london jan 26 â€” king george m consideration of henry james state of health has given permission that the order of merit be conveyed to him by his old friend lord bryce in stead of requiring mr james to at tend the palace for formal inves tltura all loop gar lines tied up for hours short circuit m van buren street tunnel melts power wires and stalls l trains too thousands are marooned m downtown section with taxis . as only means of escape early this morning it was an nounced at the office of the chi cago surface lines that repairs would be made before the morning rush hours and that workers would find the service restored and cars running on schedule thousands of chicagoans were caught m the loop district last night by the most serious transportation tie-up the city has known since the street car strike last spring long sections of elevated tracks and miles of surface lines were paralyzed the portions of the l and sur face lines that remained m operation were so congested that service was practically suspended for a time jitney buses popular throngs of men and women leaving the theaters wandered about aim lessly trying to find some sort of transportation in a few minutes practically all the taxicabs m the loop had been taken jitney bus lines were improvised on the spur of the moment hundreds of stranded persons unable to find transportation iri the direction they wanted and un willing to walk spent the night at downtown hotels on some of the l lines traffic was stopped so suddenly that passen gers got out and walked along the structure to the nearest station and thence descended to the street a driving rain added to the discom forts of the situation and nobody knows how many dollars worth of evening gowns and fancy millinery was ruined cables blow out the cause of the trouble was a blow-out m twelve two-inch cables m the van buren street tunnel fire followed the blow-out and the cables were practically destroyed the wires melting the lines tied up were all sur face lines entering on the north northwest and west sides all sur face cars m the loop district and as far south as twelfth street metro politan west side elevated lines completely for an hour express serv ice on the northwestern elevated branch of the elevated system south side cars were not affected south of twelfth street and the south side eelvated railroad was kept m operation west side blocked trains on the metropolitan system could not reach the loop and the serv ice west of the river was slow street cars on the north northwest and west sides could be moved only at a snail's pace and no street cars were operated m the loop until the clark street cars were moved just before 1 o'clock the car crews after waiting for several hours left their stalled cars and entered restaurants for lunch the loop district which was filled with stalled cars and their crews presented a sight seldom seen m chi cago spank her and 16 the idea runs away they were planning to spank me i'm sixteen years old and wouldn't stand for it this was the explana tion given by haroldine artiste for merly an englewood high school girl for running away from her south chi cago home the girl was arrested m detroit yesterday the spanking she said was to be as a reprisal to her for going shopping the girl's mother is mrs emma artiste police matron her parents are divorced evanston generous says prof baillot evanston people are not stingy they're very generous professor edouard ballot head of the depart ment of romance languages at the northwestern university thus cham pioned the cause of the town on the north shore yesterday his asser tion was m answer to a statement made recently by john h wig*nore of the schools to-wit the people of evanston are tlngry " did monttennes lose 20,000 he's too smart listen to him since he never gambles story of dice game cannot be confirmed in the first place said the prom inent mr mont tennes earnestly i never never gamble got that writ ten down the reporter nodded in the second place mr tennes continued i wouldn't tell you if i did you understand profoundly said the reporter and m the third place mr tennes concluded tm too smart a man to be done by any amateur from st louis and that is the result of an investi gation made by a reporter last night to ascertain the truth or falsity of a persistent loophound rumor that mont tennes gambling king of Chicago had dropped 20,000 just the other night to louis becker gambling king of st louis m a social contest with a pair of dice on the face of the evidence the rumor must be regarded as unconfirmed american heirs form flying corps abroad by international news service paris jan 26 â€” a flying corps composed exclusively of wealthy young americans has been formed here by elliot cowden of gramercy park new york the strength of the corps will be thirty-two every one of them a milionaire or an heir to millions one member is norman price of boston the idea of the americans is to provide for the unit ed states a nucleus of flying men already trained for use m future american conflicts stanley field buys lake forest tract stanley field vice president of marshall field & co has doubled the size of his estate on sheridan road just north of lake forest by the purchase of thirty-eight acres ad joining the property has a frontage of 1,200 feet on sheridan road it is believed the deal involved 60,000 john gould of wallace l dewolf & co represented mr field the prop erty was bought from the Chicago real estate investment company charlton returns to start life anew by international news service new york jan 26 porter charl ton freed after serving a sentence for murdering his wife arrived m jew york to-day charlton expressed determination to start life anew i have been through a great deal of trouble he said i am gsing to spend my life trying to live it down he will leave saturday for porto rico to join his father paul charlton for merly a federal judge germans tell greek king to flee realm by international news service paris jan 26 â€” the temps corre spondent m saloniki sent a dispatch this afternoon stating that german agents had informed king constan tine that he was liable to be attacked and advised him to flee to monastir and place himself under german pro tection the king refused to-day hatters day among union men by international news service new york jan 26 t0-morrow will be hatters day among union men throughout the united states every union worker m the country has been asked to set aside his wages for one hour to-morrow to help the danbury hatters save their homes 39 slain ship sunk in raid says berlin berlin jan 26 â€” thirty-nine per sons among them one officer and twenty-four soldiers were killed one transport was sunk and several railroad cars loaded with provisions were destroyed when german airmen raided dover monday according to the hamburg fremdenblatt queen wilhelmina ill with a ttack of mumps london jan 26 â€” a reuter dis patch from the hague says that queen wilhelmina has been com peled to interrupt her trip to the flooded regions owing to an attack of the mumps wife and daughter slain man missing mrs nathan pullman of Chicago wife of wealthy retired realty dealer killed with ax m new york room double slaying follows happy family reunion motive for crime lacking missing man m good health police baffled mrs nathan pullman of the hampden apartments 3850 langley avenue and her daughter gertrude bozella were mur dered m new york yesterday after noon pullman a wealthy retired real estate man disappeared about the time of the murder and is being sought by the police the crime is one of mystery and the only police theory is that pull man suddenly developed a homicidal mania and split open his wife's skull with an ex while she was sleeping his daughter arrived on a visit while he was endeavoring to conceal the body it is believed and m fear of discovery pullman struck her down with the ax just as she was entering the room pullman disappeared after slaying no other person was seen to enter the pullman room at 774 dawson street the bronx the scene of the double murder except pullman and his daughter pullman left the house alone during the afternoon he had gone out earlier m the afternoon and returned with a bundle it is be lieved to have contained the new ax and a new hatchet which were found m the room a motive for the murder is lacking pullman and his wife had been mar ried thirty years and he had retired so he and his wife might be con stantly together m a life of ease he went to new york for a family re union with his three daughters all married and living m the eastern city to celebrate the birthday of his only grandchild mrs bozella told her father that she too was to be come a mother and pullman had ex pressed his delight no trace of insanity recorded pullman was a man of temperate habits m sound health and had never exhibited the slightest sign of men tal derangement three months ago pullman who is fifty-five years old and his wife re becca fifty-years old came back to Chicago to be among their friends of former years pullman had made a comfortable fortune m real estate m the bronx and his daughters had married m new york alvin gubbie son of herman gub bie of astoria a son-in-law of pull man was to celebrate his birthday monday and the three daughters urged their parents to come to new york for a birthday party mr and mrs pullman left here friday and arrived m new york saturday they took a room at the home of mrs eliz abeth palmer at the dawson street address to be near their two daugh ters mrs david bozella of 792 pros pect avenue and mrs mina kasinitz of 860 east one hundred and sixty fourth street both m the bronx birthday party was happy event the birthday party and reunion was a great success and mr and mrs pullman returned from astoria to their room m dawson street tues day delighted with their visit mrs bozella their daughter who was twenty-three years old paid them a visit yesterday morning she remained for some time and then left to do some shopping about 1 o'clock pullman left the house and returned with a parcel about 3 o'clock mrs bozella returned at 3:30 pullman was again seen to leave the landlady later failed to gain entrance to the room and sum moned patrolman knowleÃŸ the door wa a broken m and the bodies found britain relieves restriction on ship transfers by international news service london jan 26 transfer to american registry of enemy owned vessels will be recog nized m certain cases m which they are not used directly or in directly m trading with england's enemies lord robert cecil parliamen tary under secretary for foreign affairs told the house of com mons to-day that the united states had been informed to this effect he said that the government had approved the transfer of the german vessel purelight to the standard oil company with re strictions as to exportation of lubricants paraffin and wax to neutral countries this decision marks a complete reversal of the attitude hitherto maintained by great britain as to the transfer of enemy-owned ships it opens up wide possibilities as to the german-owned ships laid up m american harbors . in the case of the dacia a ham burg-american vessel sold at the outbreak of the war to edward n breitung an american citizen and seized with her cargo of cot ton by france the position was taken by both france and great britain that a transfer must have been effected at least thirty days prior to hostilities to insure rec ognition by belligerents 60 killed in berlin riot sms report 300 wounded as machine guns are turned on women and children says paris dispatch by international news service paris jan 26 â€” scores were shot down at a peace demonstration m berlin on january 12 according to the story of a neutral printed here to day more than sixty persons were killed and at least 300 wounded this individual who claims to have been m the german capital until january 15 declares he pictures a reign of terror m which troops mutinied re fusing to fire on tlic rioters machine guns were then turned against the crowds he says his story follows on january s a mob composed of women and children formed m the slums of berlin and started toward unter den linden and the imperial palace they were halted and dis persed by armed police all cafes closed the government foreseeing the ap proalching crisis then called m two regiments of the second landstrum garrisoned at potsdam the troops arrived on the scene and immedi ately began policing the district be tween brandenburger tor and arsenal platz mounted patrols were placed m the principal streets and the pal aces of the kaiser and crown prince were surrounded by troops on january 12 although the city was virtually under martial law an immense mob gathered m the slums md formed into a long procession of misery bearing huge black banners on which were painted m white such phrases as we want bread give us back our husbands we want peace patrols flee crowd the mob streamed amid the wild est excitement through the capital passed yelling before the doors of the reichstag surged through bran denburger tor and rushed along unter den linden toward the imperial pal ace and arsenal-platz driving the mounted patrols before it â€¢ suddenly two companies of soldiers barred the way they were ordered to fire into the crowd not a man would raise his musket but the mu tinous troops drawing back un masked two machine guns which im mediately opened a destructive fire it was reported afterward that the machine guns toll was more than sixty dead and over 300 wounded it is an open secret now m berlin that the garrison received 3,000 rein forcements the next day the author ities live m constant fear of more serious outbreaks * mexicans kill pour more u.s soldiers two troopers are captured by border bandits and officers lead rescue expedition m an armed invasion of mexico three lieutenants are put under arrest as result of raid across border bodies of two american cowboys are found brownsville tex jan 28 two american soldiers were seized by armed mexicans and four others fired upon were drowned m the rio grande this aft ernoon at progreso tex three united states army officers led a rescuing expedition into mexico constituting the first armed invasion by united states troops since the recent massacre of united states citizens by bandits as a result of the invasion the officers were placed under arrest by order of the army headquarters here swim for american shore m a rain of bullets the six soldiers were swim-ning ie the river and had crossed to the mexican bank when two were i^ade prisoners by a band of mexicans who suddenly rushed out of the brush the others swam madly for the american shore volleys of buile.3 following them the missing private william c wheeiep private b petersen fourth field artillery the drowned sergeant owen l clement corporal michael f king private henry a rohde private charles d wilton relief expedition fails to find trace of americans the relief expedition to rescue the captured men was composed of lieu tenants mort peyton and waldron fourteen artillerymen and a cavalry man they crossed the river and searched for a distance of about a mile but failed to find trace of the americans although a party ot mexicans sighted m the brush was fired upon the mexicans escaped reinforcements are being rushed to progreso from mercedes two more americans are reported slain el paso texas jan 26 â€” tlie bodies of benjamin sneli and frank woods american cowboys have been found west of cusihuiriachic mexico according to an unconfirmed report from western chihuahua reaching here to-day three more americans have been killed by bandits near minaca west ern chihuahua they were henry acken wallace malburn and tom johnson sentiment for a military patrol of northern mexico was so strong at the stock association here to-day the ad ministration faction failed to even raise a voice m protest against the resolution demanding protection for american life and property it was passed without a dissenting vote the delegates charge that carranza has been a total failure and that he will be unable to hold his forces to gether longer than ninety days jose maria bonilla a physician em ployed by the american smelter ft refining company arrived here to day with a story of a widespread re volt m durango against carranza he said a proclamation has been posted denouncing carranza as an enemy of the republic americans have keen ordered hot ln revenge for the recog nition of carranza according to bonilla the 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